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...guessed which lines came from a real Pitchfork review and which didn't; "for every bold crescendo, an incongruous tangent can disrupt the music's linearity" was, unfortunately, real) but despite its haughty attitude, the website knows what it's doing. A glowing review from Pitchfork can launch a band onto the college radio charts and beyond - a 9.7 (out of 10) review of Arcade Fire's 2004 The Funeral propelled the album onto the Billboard 200. It sold so many copies that the album went out of print for a week. Conversely, a devastating review can kill an album...
...understanding of pop music's evolution. But the problem with the book - and indeed with many music reviews - is that unless the song is familiar, it fails to inspire. It's one thing to read about Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," but quite another to read about German industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten. The Pitchfork 500 has some gems hidden within its pages (bonus points for giving The B-52's "Private Idaho" the respect it deserves), as well as some questionable decisions (The Stone Roses' "I Wanna Be Adored" is way better than the book's choice...
...Harvey Milk, the San Francisco gay activist who was murdered 30 years ago tomorrow, has a New York City public school, a Georgia rock band and, as of this week, a Bay Area civil-service building named for him. The first openly homosexual city supervisor in the U.S., he organized gays into a potent political force. Then there are the movies. Bryan Singer, director of X-Men and Superman Returns, is completing a Milk documentary, The Mayor of Castro Street. Today we get Milk, a hurtling, minutely researched, close-to-irresistible biopic starring Academy Award winner Sean Penn, whose performance...
...Highlight Reel 1. On the conflicting loyalties and complicated relationships among native Americans and Mexicans in the borderlands: "Having made peace with an Apache band, it was not uncommon for a Mexican village to undertake a thriving trade with their new associates in goods seized from other settlements. '[W]hat was stolen from one Mexican found ready sale to another,' noted an observer, 'the plunder from Senora finding its way into the hands of the settlers of Chihuahua, or... selling without trouble to the Mexicans living along the Rio Grande...
...Drake ’06 cancelled the event—again, because of rain—matter-of-factly citing the chance for mass electrocution. (Rumor has it that the rally was actually cancelled because people kept leaving the period off the end of Drake’s band name, “Blanks.” The rule is that, even if it appears in the middle of a sentence, Blanks. ends with a period...